The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Be curious, not judgmental.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.